I tried to set up a new Wheezy/armhf image from scratch and I have good and bad news.

the good:
Gimp works without crashing when using the text tool.

the bad:
For some reason I'm unable to get keyboard support in lxde (via debbie it works fine in roxterm and gimp).
Just for reference, I also created an armel image and I have the same problems there, so I'm pretty sure it's not architecture-specific, but I'm missing some "magic".

what I did in detail:
1. I created a 1GB image on my Cubieboard2, formatted it with ext2 and installed Wheezy via debootstrap.
2. Once chrooted into the image I told apt not to install recommended and suggested packages by default. Maybe that's part of the problem, but if it is i'd like to know what I'm missing.
3. I installed these packages:4. I copied these scripts and binaries from my working Wheezy/armel image to the corresponding location in the new image:5. I copied the image to my N900.
6. /var/lock and /var/run/dbus were regular files, not a directory. I tried both leaving them this way as well as replacing them with directories for bind-mountpoints.
7. I ran debian-lxde, the gui came up and the mouse cursor works fine. However, the HW keyboard doesn't work at all.

In addition to the packages I installed right from the start I also tried with these packages installed, but without any change:
Input via xvkbd (onscreen keyboard) works partially. Letters work, digits and most special characters (/-) don't, just like during the jessie dist-upgrade in my working image [1]. libc6 and libc-bin are installed and after seeing this behavior I installed locales and locales-all.
I also tried the following which came from an early post of qole [2] in this thread, but I have the feeling (not more) that my problem is not actually/not only the keyboard focus:
When I start debian-lxde from xterm I get the messages in the textfile attached to this post.
For reference I also attached the output of my working armel image.

In the not_working output there is this line:If the latter is a directory in the image it really isn't there once the chroot is running when it is a directory. But when it's a file it doesn't make any difference, except that the line wil read like this instead:
A 2nd difference is this line in the not_working output:However, the file is there:But if I call it from within the lxde-desktop I get this error:Now, I know this isn't supposed to work, but I would have expected some other error message.
I guess this is the most likely candidate for the problem's reason, but I don't know how to fix it.


Then there's the last line which is only in the not_working output:Where is that variable supposed to come from, and is it essential for the keyboard to work?

I'm running out of ideas. Can somebody give me a hint please?


btw: a halfway recent kernel power (>v49) will be necessary for armhf to run stable, I guess due to the Thumb errata fixes missing in previous versions.

[1] http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...postcount=3030
[2] http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...3&postcount=75